The Naughty Canon of Catalonia and the Sack Friars: The Dynamics of "Passage" from Monk to Mendicant

This sordid tale of the runaway monk Ramon de Moranta during the tumultuous reign of King Jaume the Conqueror (1228-76) affords a glimpse into the intersecting worlds of the feudalistic Gregorian Reform, the cresting mendicantism of the doomed Friars of the Sack and the decline of the military order...

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Published in:The Catholic historical review 2008-04, Vol.94 (2), p.245-259
Main Author: Burns, Robert I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
13th century
Abbots
Catalan language
Catholicism
Christianity
Church history
Churches
Clerics
Communities. Monachism
Friars
History
History and sciences of religions
Homelessness
Jaume the Conqueror
Kings
Mediaeval church
Middle Ages
Middle Ages, 600-1500
Monasteries
Monks
Penance
Priests
Prisons
Religious aspects
Religious history
Rhetoric
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Summary:This sordid tale of the runaway monk Ramon de Moranta during the tumultuous reign of King Jaume the Conqueror (1228-76) affords a glimpse into the intersecting worlds of the feudalistic Gregorian Reform, the cresting mendicantism of the doomed Friars of the Sack and the decline of the military orders, the complexities of monastic prisons, the punitive "transfer" of clerical lifestyles, and the staged ritual and rhetoric in the theater of religious life in the medieval Catalan realms. It also illumines the historiographical resources of the king's archives today. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0008-8080
1534-0708
1534-0708
DOI:10.1353/cat.0.0033